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once i was invited to give a talk at a cia conference. they asked me to talk to them about the battle of mog dee shoe which i thought was scary they called a reporter to talk about a significant conflict engagedded in in recent years, and so i said, sure, i'll talk about it. i got a call back the next day from the same guy and he said, i forgot to ask you what your security clearance is. i said, you have to be kidding, i have a negative clearance, i'm a journalist. that's the way that i see it. [laughter] >> sir, as you know, you mentioned on it briefly, drones are a highly debated topic now in government, u.n. poll sicks domestically. how do you weigh in on the ethics of using drone, and then second question, after the killing of bin laden, do you feel al-qaeda is more or less defeated? >> okay. good questions, both. on the subject of drones, i think they are the most significant advance in humanitarian warfare in history. i think that because the three principles of a just war are necessity, determination, and proportionality. necessity
once i was invited to give a talk at a cia conference. they asked me to talk to them about the battle of mog dee shoe which i thought was scary they called a reporter to talk about a significant conflict engagedded in in recent years, and so i said, sure, i'll talk about it. i got a call back the next day from the same guy and he said, i forgot to ask you what your security clearance is. i said, you have to be kidding, i have a negative clearance, i'm a journalist. that's the way that i see it....
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cia. he thought i would never hear that anywhere in america. [laughter] view lived through the '70s it is surprising how much we have rebounded the appreciation for intelligence collection on the ground and in the year. >> the national security apparatus you mentioned would become adept at terrorist networks? with the country trying to smooth out the budget you think they will maintain that level of competency? >> these are very cost-effective if we developed such a high level of expertise from those adjusted listed 10 years ago who have now accumulated a tremendous amount of experience i doubt we will lose that capability i would be very surprised to see that erode drastically questioning if we could maintain the same high level of diligence but i don't see it as that threatening. that is something that everybody gets. >> that is the end of our allotted time for comments. thank you for your time, mr. bowden, for speaking with us today. [applause] and the other jobs washing tin bureau chief, his most recent book the showdown of paul obama's tho
cia. he thought i would never hear that anywhere in america. [laughter] view lived through the '70s it is surprising how much we have rebounded the appreciation for intelligence collection on the ground and in the year. >> the national security apparatus you mentioned would become adept at terrorist networks? with the country trying to smooth out the budget you think they will maintain that level of competency? >> these are very cost-effective if we developed such a high level of...
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or for someone in the cia. that remains to be seen. i'm a very strong believer that we need a strong and effective covert action capability and intelligence capability, and it's a sad thing if it in any way diminishes those capabilities. >> there is a conspiracy theory at the moment that this may all be linked to the fact that general petraeus was due to appear before congress and testify about the attack in benghazi in the next few days. there is an ap report that came out today which says it was 14 hours before any american military arrived on the scene. which seems, in this day and age, absolutely astonishing. could it be that he's put on an affair to stop a wider scandal? >> i doubt that. we'll get to the bottom of benghazi. why was security not improved in the month leading up to the attack? what actually happened during the attack on why it took so long for military support to get there, and to make of the administration's varying stories about what actually happened there. we will get to the bottom of th
or for someone in the cia. that remains to be seen. i'm a very strong believer that we need a strong and effective covert action capability and intelligence capability, and it's a sad thing if it in any way diminishes those capabilities. >> there is a conspiracy theory at the moment that this may all be linked to the fact that general petraeus was due to appear before congress and testify about the attack in benghazi in the next few days. there is an ap report that came out today which...
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look, these cia guys were in a firefight that night seven and a half hours. two of their guys, the seals with cia got killed. they came out, reported back. you had real-time intelligence. the cia, according to petraeus on friday, said he had in his talking points that this may have been an al-qaeda operation. that's taken out. carney and then petraeus and then rice repeatedly and the president say it came out of some spontaneous protest. there was no spontaneous protest. there was a terrorist attack. >> do you think that this is, in addition to what's been said here, do you agree with that, and secondly, do you think it was an effort at a top level to protect the cia? >> well, what you are seeing now on capitol hill that relates to all of what you are asking is that republicans are trying to buck this sort of trend, attitudal trend that you are echoing, this was nothing, this was nothing, so that's why mccain and lindsey graham, and a woman, so not just those two parties. there others. i'm on the hill every day. i will tell you there are republicans that don'
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and the sex scandal that saw the cia chief quit sends a wave of suspicion that the affair is just a part of a much bigger political cover up because my comment on that is a. very good morning for me kevin only if you just joined us this is our live from moscow and first protests have started in portugal's capital lisbon tonight where chancellor angela merkel's visiting people there blame the german leader for the nation's economic hardships the country may face a credit rating downgrade to think she has issued a negative outlook today sarah firth reports from the country's capital. political mice of being more tolerant of the all star team measures imposed on lead in the past in that seventy eight billion year i bet they'll know you won't welcome here today the german chancellor angela merkel is the crowds have turned up to protest against austerity measures that she's been having of the day when the country's president and prime minister that the government has a very strong from popular handle it to kill all the fish and take the measures that they've been trying to patient who should
and the sex scandal that saw the cia chief quit sends a wave of suspicion that the affair is just a part of a much bigger political cover up because my comment on that is a. very good morning for me kevin only if you just joined us this is our live from moscow and first protests have started in portugal's capital lisbon tonight where chancellor angela merkel's visiting people there blame the german leader for the nation's economic hardships the country may face a credit rating downgrade to...
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case officer trained by cia not cia but i know a lot of friends over there and you know they have a very unique structure a very unique culture and anytime an outsider comes in such as petraeus and others as well there's a great deal of resistance because all we see is not of the insider is not a trained intelligence officer so it used techniques his leadership was different to what a lot of folks were used to a list based at the military techniques as a general he's used to doing things the military way cia and the civilian organization i think from day one there was clashes get will betray us went through vetting investigations over and over again both to become a four star general and become the director of cia just somehow during that entire time i cannot fathom the investigation not coming up with this and more importantly the white house not knowing about it right colonel tony shaffer speaking there will violate this has flared in the bahraini cop at all of my nama when police have prevented people from attending friday prayers their security forces have set up checkpoints and fire
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and the military and the cia and stuff like that. you know petraeus is a nomination to the director's cia was controversial for a number of reasons but you know to me the interesting thing about this is the overwhelming reaction that this has gotten this sex scandal has gotten him in the public you know when the tray as you know led the surge in iraq and you know was the brainchild of the surge in afghanistan kompany these are two policies which required arming and training radical islamic fighters that pledged allegiance to the united states and you know to a certain extent and so they would fight for them but they were cruel and inhumane and did you know the afghan local police which betray us described as the linchpin of the afghan strategy these are a group of people that have been accused of murder rape they were you know it last year they were accused of kidnapping a boy in nailing a hammering nails into the bottom of his feet they're accused of torture and theft and the same type of thing that happened in iraq when you know th
and the military and the cia and stuff like that. you know petraeus is a nomination to the director's cia was controversial for a number of reasons but you know to me the interesting thing about this is the overwhelming reaction that this has gotten this sex scandal has gotten him in the public you know when the tray as you know led the surge in iraq and you know was the brainchild of the surge in afghanistan kompany these are two policies which required arming and training radical islamic...
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ready for the cia? >> well, i feel very fortunate to have been provided such an opportunity to continue to serve and to contribute, if inficonfi, but the iraqi people will always be in my mind and in my heart. >> reporter: this colonel was petraeus' executive officer in iraq from 2007 to 2008. >> he had a lot of opportunities in iraq, if he wanted to, to let his hair down, to maybe drink alcohol at one of the embassies, but he wouldn't do it because the troops couldn't do it. and to find out that he had an extramarital affair, it's really -- it's somewhat sad. >> reporter: even amid this devastating personal scandal, those closest to him speculate petraeus still had the cia's best interest at heart. >> there is a possibility, if you're the cia director, that someone could use, if they found out about an extramarital affair, they could use it as blackmail against, you sew, it's not surprising to me that he did the right thing and offered to resign. >> reporter: taking over the cia last year, his wife, ho
ready for the cia? >> well, i feel very fortunate to have been provided such an opportunity to continue to serve and to contribute, if inficonfi, but the iraqi people will always be in my mind and in my heart. >> reporter: this colonel was petraeus' executive officer in iraq from 2007 to 2008. >> he had a lot of opportunities in iraq, if he wanted to, to let his hair down, to maybe drink alcohol at one of the embassies, but he wouldn't do it because the troops couldn't do it....
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if you look at leon panetta, when he was running the cia, when he went to the cia people asked what kind of background did he have in the intelligence community? it wasn't particularly deep. he was in congress who had been a white house chief of staff, kind of an organization man. you had other cia directors that come up the ranks and they're real spy masters. petraeus came from the military. there has been a recent trend of senior intelligence officials nts government having military background. so that actually -- petraeus was a part of that wave of people who bring -- because we are having this merger in military and intelligence now, we identify threats and trouble spots and frequently we wind up sending special forces or drones our using targeted military actions to address threats. you could see someone else come from the military. again, to return to this point briefly that i made earlier, the cia is increasingly being identified by its reliance on drones and drone strikes and that kind of military side of things. petraeus was steering it very much in that direction, so i guess if
if you look at leon panetta, when he was running the cia, when he went to the cia people asked what kind of background did he have in the intelligence community? it wasn't particularly deep. he was in congress who had been a white house chief of staff, kind of an organization man. you had other cia directors that come up the ranks and they're real spy masters. petraeus came from the military. there has been a recent trend of senior intelligence officials nts government having military...
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a lot of folks have problems at cia i'm a trained case officer trained by cia but cia but i know a lot of friends over there and you know they have a very unique structure a very unique culture and anytime it alcide or comes in such as betray us and others as well there's a great deal of resistance because all this is not an insider is not a true. an intelligence source so used techniques his leadership was different there was a lot of folks who are used to let's face it the military techniques of general he's used to doing things a military way cia and a civilian organization but i think from day one there were clashes. coming out here in our pain for the future today we'll look out the biggest shake up of k. pensions for a generation that threatens to further shrank pay packets and recession hit. plus close society find out how norway's growing islamic community is causing some locals concern for their safety. on the some flight for. my chute despite. all said. and done fadia all for. one thing as the truth is. the most reliable of the twentieth century. legend. i mean sort of known
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and as cia director, he wouldn't have that. and was that one of the reasons he was vulnerable as he was popaula broadwell? >> i don't know if thisit was that specific relationship. he may have had a harder time adjusting to retirement. let's face it 37 plus years since she was 18 years old starting with west point and end happened as a four star. i think he was down and vulnerable at that point in time and just the right circumstances or the wrong circumstances, prevailed. and he made a bad decision that he owned up and taken responsibility for it. and did what he considered to be the right thing and that was to resign from the cia. and night row he will focus on his family. >> was this a first affair or a pattern of illicit conduct that people who are huge advisors of the general was suspected. ni anded him and he told me that this was the only time he's had an affair and i suspect it would be the last time. he knows how much damage this did to his family and this is it something that not even he wanted to do. i think for some
and as cia director, he wouldn't have that. and was that one of the reasons he was vulnerable as he was popaula broadwell? >> i don't know if thisit was that specific relationship. he may have had a harder time adjusting to retirement. let's face it 37 plus years since she was 18 years old starting with west point and end happened as a four star. i think he was down and vulnerable at that point in time and just the right circumstances or the wrong circumstances, prevailed. and he made a...
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on the scale that ousted cia chief david vitter as goes beyond a secret mistress it's now a matter of national security and political intrigue. me out of the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program now the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but stopped short of recognizing the group as a so with voice of the syrian people leaders of serious exiled opposition beset by mutual suspicion and infighting formed the new united bloc on sunday following relentless pressure from the west and its allies his family is now saying international recognition to remove obstacles and sending arms to rebel forces six gulf states have already given their full backing to the coalition but some experts believe the oil rich nations are simply pursuing their own agenda. and i'm glad to see that this collection of corrupt dictatorships is instructing the syrian people as to who their representatives ought to be about the representatives of the saudi arabian people of the border. any and people or people of qatar charge of the rest of th
on the scale that ousted cia chief david vitter as goes beyond a secret mistress it's now a matter of national security and political intrigue. me out of the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie welcome to the program now the arab league has hailed the formation of syria's new rebel coalition but stopped short of recognizing the group as a so with voice of the syrian people leaders of serious exiled opposition beset by mutual suspicion and infighting formed the new united...
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specifically the cia. he thought about keeping the union form on and going to the cia. he proposed that to second gats having liked the idea because he served there before. >> rose: as director. >> right exactly. he took it back to the president and the presidenttraeus didn't talk about it until march and the president said he would like the idea but you have to take off the uniform. he felt that was the best place for him. he felt he wouldn't get the chair position. >> rose: why did he think that. >> he wasn't interested in the chairman of chief at the army position or the other position gates offered which was supreme allied commander of europe. those appealed to him earlier but somehow he felt that he, they are prestiges positions but felt he had been there kind of done that. in some sense he was frustration with coalition management even though he's good at it and he felt that nato's not going to change all these countries are drawing down on their defense budgets. he prides himself on being a war fighter as much as i call him a professor. he really wanted to stay i
specifically the cia. he thought about keeping the union form on and going to the cia. he proposed that to second gats having liked the idea because he served there before. >> rose: as director. >> right exactly. he took it back to the president and the presidenttraeus didn't talk about it until march and the president said he would like the idea but you have to take off the uniform. he felt that was the best place for him. he felt he wouldn't get the chair position. >> rose:...
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the stalking start with benghazi former cia director recent very recently former cia director it's a whole other thing i suppose david petraeus testified on capitol hill today about benghazi i don't know if john mccain showed up for this when he missed the one yesterday that in any case he confirmed that the attack was indeed an act of terrorism consistent with what president obama had said in the rose garden the day after the attack here's the clip. no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for today we mourn for more americans who represent the very best of the united states of america. we will not waver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act republicans john mccain and lindsey graham have been calling for watergate scale or type investigations into benghazi yet both mccain and graham skipped the hearing yesterday where the joint chiefs and the f.b.i. and the cia and everybody else came to tell the senators what they wanted to hear so my question and let me st
the stalking start with benghazi former cia director recent very recently former cia director it's a whole other thing i suppose david petraeus testified on capitol hill today about benghazi i don't know if john mccain showed up for this when he missed the one yesterday that in any case he confirmed that the attack was indeed an act of terrorism consistent with what president obama had said in the rose garden the day after the attack here's the clip. no acts of terror will ever shake the...
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a lot of folks have problems at cia i'm a trained case officer trained by cia. but i know a lot of friends over there and you know they have a very unique structure a very unique culture and anytime it outside or comes in such as betray us and others as well there's a great deal of resistance because all we see is not an insider is not a trained intelligence officer so used techniques his leadership was. there was a lot of folks who are used to it let's face it the military technique is a general he's used to doing things a military way syrians a civilian organization i think from day one there were clashes dabbling clashes flared up in the bahraini capital manama when police prevented people from attending friday prayers security forces set up checkpoints and fire tear gas at the crowds killing at least one person a sixteen year old boy reportedly try to break through barricades to get to a mosque and it was chase into a highway where he was hit by a car thousands of opposition supporters plan to gather for worship last month authorities banned all public gathe
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director or the former cia director. i don't think that's the reason because i think he's much more intelligent than to believe that. >> people are saying it's just extraordinary that the fbi would even be investigating something that on the face of it appeared so trivial. you have this woman, miss kelley, and she apparently is receiving harassing e-mails but it's being made clear from leaks tonight these were not of an "i'm going to kill you" threatening nature. they were just accusing her of being a bit too big for her boots around the army camp and so on. that kind of tone of e-mail. it -- >> it sounded as if they were accusing her of more than that. possibly being too big for her clothing. but go ahead. >> right. either way, we're not talking about sinister death threats. why would the fbi be involved in this anyway? >> the fbi is supposed to investigate predicated federal crimes. and they don't know when they start an investigation precisely whether the evidence ultimately will show there was a crime. i don't know w
director or the former cia director. i don't think that's the reason because i think he's much more intelligent than to believe that. >> people are saying it's just extraordinary that the fbi would even be investigating something that on the face of it appeared so trivial. you have this woman, miss kelley, and she apparently is receiving harassing e-mails but it's being made clear from leaks tonight these were not of an "i'm going to kill you" threatening nature. they were just...
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tempers flaring afresh over reports of squandered millions on reporting that sex scandal that saw the cia chief quit sending a wave of suspicion of the affair is just part of a much bigger political cover up we'll bring you details on but to. follow in a very good evening if you just joined us this is our team our name is kevin owen first this hour protests have started in portugal's capital lisbon where chancellor angela merkel's visit to people there blame the german leader for the nation's economic hardships the country may face a credit rating downgrade two fish has issued a negative outlook sarah first reports from the country's capital. political mice will be more tolerant of the all star team measures imposed on lead in the past in that seventy eight billion year i bet the no woman can hit today the german chancellor angela merkel is the crowds have turned up to protest against austerity measures that she's been having a big say when the country's president and prime minister is expected to keep going to be delivering a supportive message to the very top cause that they've been mak
tempers flaring afresh over reports of squandered millions on reporting that sex scandal that saw the cia chief quit sending a wave of suspicion of the affair is just part of a much bigger political cover up we'll bring you details on but to. follow in a very good evening if you just joined us this is our team our name is kevin owen first this hour protests have started in portugal's capital lisbon where chancellor angela merkel's visit to people there blame the german leader for the nation's...
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well over the last few days there's been quite a bit of a fallout over the resignation of cia director general david petraeus over an extramarital affair but according to a select few the affair with a woman who was not his wife is not the main issue here the bigger problem they argue is the affair the general has had with the media as a result a whole lot of questions that should have been asked about betrays his job and about the attack in benghazi libya that killed ambassador chris stevens were not asked here's something we wondered back on september eighteenth but here's an interesting detail in a puzzling detail if you take a look at the u.s. state department's web site which we did provides a list of all u.s. embassies consulates and diplomatic missions strangely not listed the diplomatic mission and benghazi but a quick search on the site will turn up numerous other diplomatic missions in the u.s. the ones that were taking part in now with the news of the alleged affair with general petraeus biographer paula broadwell we want to take a critical look at a few additional aspects o
well over the last few days there's been quite a bit of a fallout over the resignation of cia director general david petraeus over an extramarital affair but according to a select few the affair with a woman who was not his wife is not the main issue here the bigger problem they argue is the affair the general has had with the media as a result a whole lot of questions that should have been asked about betrays his job and about the attack in benghazi libya that killed ambassador chris stevens...
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shows the obama administration organized an hour long private briefing the acting director of the cia susan rice herself and the three amigos so all their. sions could be answered but of course they weren't interested in facts or truth or even the impact their behaviors may have an international relations all the three amigos wanted to do was to smear rice so obama would be forced to drop or for kennedy opening the way for scott brown excuse me kerry opening the way for scott brown to get back into the senate as you can see here. susan rice should have known better and if she didn't know better she's not qualified she should have known better i would do everything in my power to block her from being united states secretary of state she has proven that she either doesn't understand or she is not willing to accept evidence based so how could she say five days later definitively there is no evidence of a coordinated al qaeda attack when there is they remove the evidence this is about the role she played around four dead americans when it seems to be that the story coming out of the minis
shows the obama administration organized an hour long private briefing the acting director of the cia susan rice herself and the three amigos so all their. sions could be answered but of course they weren't interested in facts or truth or even the impact their behaviors may have an international relations all the three amigos wanted to do was to smear rice so obama would be forced to drop or for kennedy opening the way for scott brown excuse me kerry opening the way for scott brown to get back...
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a lot of folks have problems at cia i'm a trained case officer trained by cia and not cia but i know a lot of friends over there and you know they have. very unique structure a very unique culture and anytime an outsider comes in such as petraeus and others as well there's a great deal of resistance because obviously he's not an insider is not a trained intelligence officer so used techniques his leadership was different than what a lot of folks were used to and let's face it the military techniques is a general he's used to doing things a military way cia and a civilian organization i think from day one they were clashes it will betray us went through very. investigations over and over again both to become a four star general and become the director of cia so somehow during that entire time i cannot fathom the investigation not coming up with this and more importantly the white house not knowing about it well from stopping muslim prayers on their holiest day to stripping people of their citizenship bahrain's efforts to destroy dissent are widening in the capital security forces tear
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basically said they stumbled upon the cia director. and learned about his affair with this biographer and during the course of their separate investigation then a cart but of course all kinds of theories emerged mostly referring to the timing of this revelation right after the election and some argue there was more to this to his resignation that the public is allowed to know lots of speculation sort of all souls listening to the pundits here call occlusions mainstream media journalists you could say that general petraeus this fall from grace came as a shock to many because of how he was worshiped as the commander of forces in iraq and afghanistan his official referred to as the man who turned the tide in the afghan war but if you listen to other experts again if that is a mess but the message that the general has rescued the mission there kind of sunk and general petraeus was idolised to the media had to go through not the media the public had to go through a similar trauma with the other again and then general who was also idolized i
basically said they stumbled upon the cia director. and learned about his affair with this biographer and during the course of their separate investigation then a cart but of course all kinds of theories emerged mostly referring to the timing of this revelation right after the election and some argue there was more to this to his resignation that the public is allowed to know lots of speculation sort of all souls listening to the pundits here call occlusions mainstream media journalists you...